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Old 09-17-2019, 10:23 AM   #60
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Originally Posted by MGlitch View Post
To continue using you as an example though BPL is a shared resource between Brooklyn and Queens as a base, however any NYS resident can get a BPL and NYPL card, and borrow ebooks using those cards. Which rather drastically raises the number of users of a system not all of whom are paying taxes which go into those libraries.
Not quite. NYC has three library systems: NYPL, BPL, and Queens. A Queens card is separate and does not have reciprocity at NYPL and BPL (it did at one point, but not now); NYPL and BPL do have reciprocity with each other for residents, though you can get separate cards. I have a Queens card for Queens, and use a Brooklyn card for BPL and NYPL.

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I'm even reasonably sure without checking that out of state people can get a NYPL or BPL card, though they may need to pay a fee and pay that fee again upon renewal of their card(s).
No again. A nonresident BPL card is valid only at BPL; it cannot be used for NYPL, and NYPL does not offer a nonresident card for remote borrowing.

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Now I'm sure the number of NYS and out of state residents who take advantage of this program are the minority, however I'm equally sure any NYC resident who is aware has merged their BPL and NYPL cards. All you need to do is visit a branch in Brooklyn/Queens to merge an existing NYPL card to a BPL account, or Manhattan, Bronx, or Staten Island with a BPL card to merge it to an NPL account. Rather trivial tasks.
Again, Queens doesn't play nicely with the other systems. But as to the broader point, true enough, one needs only to go to a library in the two other systems to get the additional card(s).

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So you now have a pool of millions drawing on the library resources. Lets also not forget that not all of those millions are paying taxes, we'll steer clear of those criminally not doing so and stick with kids/unemployed, etc. This is not to shame them, merely to remind everyone that they exist and are utilizing those resources, the library doesn't discriminate against them. But this means the dollars those tax payers do contribute to the library are stretched that much farther.
The three NYC library systems are free for all NYS residents; this is not true of all other library systems the state, which either don't offer cards or charge a fee for NYS residents who don't live or work in their designated areas.

These are all technicalities, but NYC and particularly the great resource that is the NYPL are not typical. As a city resident, with a greater tax burden than other areas of the state, I guess I'm subsidizing borrowers from the suburbs and upstate, who can use my libraries while I can't use theirs. But so what?

Anyway, I'm not sure how any of this relates back to Macmillan's silly plan.
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